Famous British hoaxes

In 1917, two young girls in Cottingley, Yorkshire, were catapulted to fame
when they took a series of photographs which appeared to show them with
fairies. Many people believed them, including Sherlock Homes author Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle. But in the 1980s, the girls admitted that the pictures
had been faked – though one maintained that the final picture was genuine.